Improvement in refrigerators



B. ARMIGER.

Refrigerators.

Nn. 145,081. Pgtented Dec.2,1s7a.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGE.

RICHARD ARMIGER,' OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

|MPRovEMl-:N'r IN REFRIGERA'roR-s.

Speoication forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,081, dated December 2, 1873 application filed 1 october 11, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD ARMIGER, of Baltimore, in thecounty of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Refrigerators, of which the following is a specication:

Figure 1 is a vertical section of my improved refrigerator, taken through the line x x, Fig. 2.

provision-chamber, and which shall be simple 1n construction and convenient in use.

The invention will rst be fully described, and then pointed out in the claim.

A is the outer box or case of the refrigerator, which is made of wood, and within which is placed a box, B, made of galvanized iron. The box B is made enough smaller than the box A to leave a space, C, between them upon all their sides. D is the ice-chamber, which is formed in one part of the top of the box B, and the bottom of which is made inclined, so that the icewater may ow oil' as fast as the E is the ice-water tank, which is also placed in the upper part of the box B, but at a lower level than the ice-chamber D, so that the ice-water may be received and held in the said tank E, as it drips from the said ice-chamber D. In the space F, above the ice- -water tank E, is secured a pan, G, in which articles to be kept cool may be placed, and which is made detachable, to allow the watertank to be conveniently cleaned. below the ice-chamber D and water-tank E are placed shelves or racks H, of perforated sheet metal or wire rods, to receive the articles to be kept cool. The shelves or racks H rest upon cleats or anges attached to or formed upon the box B.

By this arrangement a greater space in a refrigerator of a given size is made available for use than is possible with other constructions.

By this construction the sweat or moisture condensed upon the outer side ofthe iron box B can flow down and escape without wetting and rotting the wood and tainting the air. The bottom of the ice-water ta'nk E is inclined, so that all the water can be drawn from it, when desired, through the faucet I, which passes in through the walls of the boxes A B.

Having thus described my invention, l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The inclined ice-chamber D and inclined water-discharge tank E, arranged, with respect to each other, diagonally, and in the upper part of refrigerator, as described, for the pun pose set forth. r

RICHARD ARMIGER.

Vitnesses:

' GEO. N. BARRIERE,

W. L. ARMIGER.

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